This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
Bodies of 3 men lying as they fell after being executed.
Taken 15 Oct 1916
SMU Libraries Digital Collections
Captain Hubert Edmund Backhouse. Unit: Special Reserve of Officers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916 Killed in action at Gueudecourt Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hubert Edmund Backhouse. Unit: Special Reserve of Officers, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916, missing, Gueudecourt, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepv
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal William E R Braddock 4744, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Ertrag der Kartoffelernte - Kundmachung - Wien
15 October 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Kartoffelernte - Kundmachung - Lilienfeld
15 October 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Lieutenant Hubert Edmund Backhouse , Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Major Edmund Rochfort Street DSO. Unit: 3rd Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916 Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Major Edmund Rochfort Street, D.S.O. , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Alan Gascoigne 20717, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward Thomas Hogan 1660. Unit: 55th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 October 1916, died of wounds, Western Front.
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest Charles Nicholls 10967, Essex Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George H Thompson 30067, Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private John Christopher St George 5599, South African Infantry Battalion
Died 15 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Booth Lister S/23831. Unit: 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 15 October 1916 Wounded and Missing Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum